International Racing

Jack Aitken has taken his first win of the season and given his championship challenge a boost with a crushing display of speed and maturity this afternoon in the GP3 Series Race 1 at the Hungaroring, easily controlling his pace as well as his rivals for a relatively simple victory ahead of ART teammates Nirei Fukuzumi and Anthoine Hubert. The win was set up before the start when Series leader an...

Oliver Rowland has brought home exactly the result he was looking for after emerging on top of a chaotic FIA Formula 2 feature race at the Hungaroring, holding on from pole despite losing the lead early on and surviving a late attack from Artem Markelov to claim victory ahead of DAMS teammate Nicholas Latifi and Nyck De Vries. Anyone who was expecting a quiet race around the tight, technical circ...

For the first time since the Total 24 Hours of Spa have been part of the Blancpain GT Series, a Ferrari will start from pole position. James Calado clocked a superb 2m17.390s, the fastest-ever lap of a GT3 car on the Spa track, at the wheel of the No. 55 Kaspersky Motorsport Ferrari. Mirko Bortolotti (No. 63 Grasser Racing Team Lamborghini) will be next to him on the front row, with Belgian drive...

At the 4.35-mile-long long Spa-Francorchamps Formula 1 circuit, Carlin Racing's Lando Norris scored his fourth season victory in the FIA Formula 3 European Championship in the weekend's first race, but lost out to Austrian teammate Ferdinand Habsburg in the second race. Norris was also stripped of his pole for the third race after he was ruled at fault for a first-lap crash in Race 2. At the star...

A new Asia-Pacific series will join an otherwise largely unchanged package of GT-based championships organized by SRO in 2018. The new Asia Pacific 36 series will bring together the Sepang 12 Hour, the Bathurst 12 Hour (which is also the opening round of the International GT Challenge) and the Hampton Downs 12 Hour in New Zealand. Sepang's place as the Asian round of the Intercontinental GT Chall...

UPDATE: Charles Leclerc has been disqualified from the results of this afternoon's qualifying session at the Hungaroring following scrutineering, where it was discovered that he took part in the session with a car equipped with parts that did not comply with the technical regulations. The Monaco driver had provisionally claimed his seventh pole position of the season, but in post-session scrutine...

With rain announced for Thursday evening, most teams and drivers chose to go for a quick qualifying lap during the first of two qualifying sessions. After the usual skirmishes, Raffaele Marciello in the No. 90 AKKA ASP Mercedes-AMG came out on top, a mere 0.113s quicker than the No. 2 Audi Sport Team WRT R8 of Fred Vervisch. James Calado, driving the No. 55 Kaspersky Motorsport Ferrari, ended the...

DTM promoter ITR has promised to develop a "sustainable concept for the future" to ensure that the series remains viable beyond Mercedes-Benz's exit at the end of 2018. Mercedes made the shock announcement of its decision to quit the DTM in favor of a Formula E program earlier this week. ITR said in a statement that it regrets the move, but that it has ample lead time to prepare for Mercedes' exi...

Carlin Racing's Lando Norris remains unbeatable at the 4.35-mile-long Formula 1 circuit of Spa-Francorchamps. In second qualifying for the FIA Formula 3 European Championship, he came out on top once more. Behind the Brit, who is supported by the McLaren Formula 1 team, Callum Ilott (Prema Powerteam) and Guanyu Zhou (Prema Powerteam) ended up second and third respectively. Maximilian Gunther (Pre...

America's Santino Ferrucci, a development driver for the Haas F1 team, is moving up to Formula 2. Ferrucci, who has raced in both European F3 and GP3, is now advancing to the final F1 ladder series category with Team Trident, where he will partner Nabil Jeffri for the last five rounds of 2017, starting this weekend in Hungary. "We are really proud to announce the agreement reached between Team Tr...

Mercedes-AMG unveiled its GT4 on Tuesday ahead of this weekend's 24 Hours of Spa. Based on the Mercedes-AMG GT R, it is the company's third GT car, following the SLS AMG GT3 released in 2010 and the Mercedes-AMG GT3 last year. "The GT4 segment is getting more and more popular," said Tobias Moers, chairman of the Board of Management of Mercedes-AMG GmbH. "The production-based concept is an importa...

Mercedes-Benz will withdraw from the DTM at the end of 2018 ahead of an entry into Formula E for the 2019/2020 season. Mercedes has been a mainstay in the current version of the DTM since its founding in 2000, and for almost two decades the championship has been defined by its battles with rival Audi, and more recently, BMW. "Our years in the DTM will always be held high as a major chapter in the...

The Sunday race at Moscow Raceway saw DTM returnee Maro Engel winning for the first time in his career in the international touring car series. In a race that was dominated by intense duels and numerous overtaking maneuvers, the Mercedes driver remained in control and laid the foundation for victory with an early pit stop. There was also joy for Mattias Ekstrom. The Audi driver finished second an...